The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.
Eat your fish while it is still fresh and marry the girl while she is still young.
If you lie upon roses when you're young, you'll lie upon thorns when you're old.
The young magpie that pulls feathers out of his mother thinks that he is showing gratitude in that way.
A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards.
Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more...
Her son seemed to be belatedly rebelling against all his celebrated accomplishments- as well as the responsibilities inherent in them, the obligations to own his talents.In that rebellion, she saw a young man who was confused and upset that his life ...
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cyn...
[Royal is telling his children that he and their mother are splitting up] Young Margot Tenenbaum: Is it our fault? Royal: No, no. Obviously, we made certain sacrifices as a result of having children, but no, Lord, no. Young Richie Tenenbaum: Then why...
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fac...
...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.
Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.
